1819 in art

Events in the year 1819 in Art.

Events[edit]

• November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.
• Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.

Works[edit]

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819, Musée du Louvre, Paris

• Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight
• John Constable – The Gathering Storm
• Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
• Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
• Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
• Francisco Goya
  • The Madhouse
  • A Procession of Flagellants
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
• John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
• Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
• Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday

Births[edit]

• January 19 – William Powell Frith, painter (died 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, artist and critic (died 1900)
• March 20 – Roger Fenton, photographer (died 1869)
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, painter (died 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, painter (died 1877)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (died 1877)
• June 28 – Henri Harpignies, landscape painter (died 1916)
• September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, painter (died 1856)
• December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, painter (died 1895)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter (died 1857)
  • Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (died 1904)
  • Helena Sophia Isberg, woodcut artist (died 1875)

Deaths[edit]

• January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, painter and etcher (born 1779)
• February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
• March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
• May 2 – Mary Moser, painter (born 1744)
• May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
• July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
• July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
• August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
• September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
• November 2 – Edward Bird, painter (born 1772)
• November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
• November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
• December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
• date unknown
  • Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver and teacher (born 1744)
  • William Beilby, British glassworker and enameller (born 1740)
  • Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)
  • Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
  • John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
  • Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
  • Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)
  • Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (born 1776)
  • Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)